28Due to the historical impact of Mosaic. Before Mosaic, the World-Wide-Web was just another distributedinformation system, and Mosaic gave the user a friendly tool for accessing the Web. Incidentally,Netscape is a descendant of Mosaic. The original programmers who wrote Mosaic, left NCSA to form acompany to exploit their software. The original Mosaic (and updated versions) is still available fromNCSA.